You’re in the comfort of your home on a Tuesday afternoon and your work is under control. You flip on the television to see what’s on, and about 20 minutes into your channel surfing, you remember you’re being monitored. Your boss will see the 20-minute lapse in your online activity and wonder what you were [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Interruptions, Task-switching and ROWE
Very interesting article on the Fast Company website about interruptions in the workplace. It’s a Q & A with Gloria Mark, Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine and she talks about—. If you need to get that, that’s fine with us. We’ll wait. You’re back. Great. So anyway, Professor Mark talks about [...]
Stay Home, DC!
Kudos to Telework Exchange for their recent campaign to encourage Washington, DC-area workers to stay away from the office on Inauguration Day. With millions converging on the city to witness this historic event, downtown promises to be a historic mess. What better day to work remotely? We hope companies treat this as a learning opportunity as [...]
To Drive or Not to Drive
As you all know, we both live in the Twin Cities where the snow and cold this time of year can be downright unbearable. This week, the news stations are spending most of their newscasts talking about frigid windchills, and covering stories of frostbite and cars veering off the road into frozen ponds. At least [...]
Fatherhood and ROWE: Part 2
Time for Part 2 of our interview with Tyler. But first, there’s something we find particularly interesting about becoming a new parent in a ROWE vs. a traditional work environment. In a traditional work environment, new mothers and fathers have a set amount of time they can take to spend with the new baby (and [...]
Interview with Tyler Shaw: Fatherhood and ROWE
Today, we have the first part of a unique interview to share with you. The interviewee is Tyler Shaw, one of our good friends from Best Buy. We vividly remember first meeting Tyler – in the Leadership Education session for his team’s ROWE migration. During the session, he had that light in his eyes that [...]
Rewriting Bad Advice #1
Faithful readers of this blog know that we have an axe to grind with bad workplace advice. Now we’ve decided we’re going to do something about it. Instead of (or maybe we should say in addition to) complaining, we’re going to take the offending articles and (lovingly) rewrite them. First up, a story from the [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
